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>On the other hand, it's hard to ignore the fact that typically these people have already profited enormously from these companies and they will never have to face any sort of real ramifications or consequences for the net harm that may ultimately be brought to society.

And they rarely put their money where their mouth is, meaning they don't use that accumulated wealth to try and solve the issue they've helped create. Talk is cheap.

As someone who actually bothered to sit down and spend the effort learning SQL, I agree. I've seen many colleagues in my career say "Oh SQL is hard/stupid/broken/whatever. MongoDB is so easy, it just works." and when pressed on whether they actually bothered to try and learn SQL, the answer is always no. Seems developers today are so lazy that we can't be bothered to learn a technology, if it's different from the ones we already know.

But what is the value in knowing that it is newer, if you know nothing else than that it is newer?

> While difference between 1.2.3 and 1.4.5 is instantly apparent to any human?

The author's point is that the difference between 1.2.3 and 1.4.5 can be anything from a bugfix to the software going from self-hosted photo software to now it's driving a car. The assumption that users have the same perception of a major and minor version as the developer responsible for the versioning, is assuming that all humans understand versioning 100% identically.

>If the return reason is "defective," why would mark as sellable ever be possible?

Because customers don't always tell the truth, as in your perception of truth might be different from my perception of truth, meaning what's considered defective to you might be perfectly acceptable to me and to other customers.

>Sellers just have to assume a 10% loss of gross margin due to issues like this. It's not the end of the world, but that's where the cost is.

Cost of doing business. Reminds me of the book "What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars" where Jim Paul describes how someone trading in lumber doesn't cry about 20% of the wood being useless, he knows 20% will be useless and he writes that up under cost of doing business. Just like refunds and customer support are a cost of doing business.

Just like roads don't get you from A to B, cars do using those roads, cables don't transfer your internet traffic from your house to the website you're trying to reach, ISPs do using those cables.

>There are times where you don't have the energy to stand but need to work - so just sit

Then what's the point of not getting a table that can go up and down?

Move to Europe https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kwaa5/the-europe...

>A limited number of episodes of a television show may be called a miniseries or a serial or limited series. Television series are without a fixed length and are usually divided into seasons (U.S. and Canada) or series (UK), yearly or semiannual sets of new episodes. While there is no defined length, U.S. industry practice has traditionally favored longer television seasons than those of other countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_program

>Twenty-one percent of respondents told industry site StackOverflow that MongoDB was the most popular database, second only to versions from the dominant technology, SQL, which traces its roots back to legacy technology companies such as Microsoft, IBM and Oracle.

Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle are legacy technology companies? What kind of hipster journalist wrote this article?

>I think one of our problems is that people have downgraded the importance of this. Much code nowadays (rightly or wrongly) is considered "disposable" - people think that the likelihood of any given piece of code they are writing as surviving more than a few years is negligible.

I think younger devs think this. Once you get a decade or more experience, you grow wiser and realise that code never dies, and especially the code you wish would die is particularly tenacious. And this is pure speculation, but I would wager that the number of lines of legacy code that is kept alive with maintenance is much greater than the number of lines of code that gets abandoned/rewritten/obsoleted.

Indeed. My father died a few years ago, at age 64. His death could have been avoided, had he simply gone to the doctor regularly to get a health check-up as he died due to atherosclerosis and we didn't know he had that. I don't know about other countries, but here in Denmark guys are notoriously bad at going to the doctor, unless we're really sick, according to various physicians. Point is, go to your doctor and get checked on a regular basis, even if you feel fine.

We have a concept here in Denmark, which directly translated would be "total contractor", which is a person who manages all the different contractors, schedules when they show up and do their work, handles any problems that arise during the project, and all the billing goes through him, so you get a single invoice at the end. I imagine every country has a similar concept, I'm just not aware of the name in English.

"widely known" is useless in science. Anyone can claim that they know something is X, i.e. pretty much every one of Trump's statements is him claiming that "I know <insert subject> is bad, therefore we must do <insert solution>". His statement isn't any more true than merely stating that he's wrong without anything to prove his falseness. Science and actual studies do make it true that he's wrong.

You're not going to suddenly build a logistics system for dairy farmers, because you're not a dairy farmer and you don't know what kind of problems they have. But look at your own daily life. Your kids school might have some problems you could fix? Your daily shopping might have some annoyances you could invent a solution for? Look at your own life and stop ignoring the boring problems, while looking for the glamorous opportunities. Maybe keeping a pet has some annoying obligations that could be easier?

Talk to people in your everyday life, your doctor for example and find out what annoys them in their lives, doesn't have to be at work.

Or Snapchat. Did kids and teenagers have problems connecting with other kids and teenagers before Snapchat existed? I know I didn't. My parents didn't. Their parents didn't and so on. Until Snapchat showed us that we couldn't live without it, nobody had a problem connecting to each other.

>Sure its safe when you dump all your waste in another state. If your state that created the nuclear waste had to keep it, it would be a different story.

The article says safest, not safe. And if we compare nuclear waste to carbon dioxide emissions, which actually pollutes more worldwide?

> Our contract also allows for verification, "If the Employer suspects abuse, the Employer may require a written medical certificate for any sick leave absence."

That sounds pretty standard in any contract here in Denmark, and we have some very strong unions which have created good conditions for employees. I personally think it's fair for the employer to ask for a doctor's note if he/she thinks an employee is skipping work just for the hell of it. Though said unions have made it so that the employer has to pay for the doctor's note, when they request it, so it happens rarely.

Isn't that the case for almost any metropolis? Tech scenes tend to be focused in the capital, in most countries.

>> Thinking is an activity too—don’t undervalue it. Make time and space for it in your daily work schedule. >This is why I find it impossible to work effectively in open-plan offices.

That, and the fact that open-plan offices are, in my experience, a noise hell. There's always seperate 2-3 conversations happening in the room, some of them about actual work, but disturbing 20 people nonetheless.

The article is taking about average salary, which is a society topic, i.e. social.

Same thing happened in Denmark. Several operators advertised a rise in prices with the exact reasoning: To pay for the loss of roaming charges. They actually advertised that the price rise was to pay for their lost income, as if to somehow try to gather sympathy from the average customer.

> Also pretty much every Samsung or LG washing machine i see in promotion has 10 years warranty on engine, though i would be afraid about electronics.

So if the engine breaks, they will fix it. But what if the engine works fine, but the lid is filled with rust? Who is going to use a washing machine that looks like it could drop pieces of rust into the dirty clothes at any given time. And since the lid is not covored by the 10 year warranty, you can either throw out the whole machine or pay to get the lid repainted.

That might work. If said 3rd parties were interested in helping. Most of them might be but it just takes one party refusing to help and then you've still got the data out there.

I think the point is this is not reddit, jokes not very constructive in a debate, however funny.

> I posit that someone who's banned from shopping at AMZN is more dangerous than someone who plays card games with a dark sense of humor. How does that even happen?

So now you've conclused she's dangerous, based solely on her standing with a retailer, without knowing anything about the situation?

Are you actually suggesting US companies compete on a free and open market, with consumers deciding which services and products deserve to survive based on the quality and price of the service/product? Then they might risk failing as a company just because consumers didn't like what they had to sell. Well I never! /sarcasm

> The justification they told me was that they weren't going to give me a 20K raise if I wasn't making that much right now

So you base your salary offer on my current salary, instead of what I would be worth to you guys? Good luck. We're going to be here a while, since I'm not going to disclose my salary.

Top comments are about complaining about how people don't like youtube, instead of actually debating the actual issue. Seems this site is becoming more like Reddit every day. I love Reddit, but it's like beer and cola. I love both, but I love them for their different taste and I don't want them to taste the same.